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By Mary B. Welch n.d.
Since we visited St. Peter's and
the Pope before we will pass them by this
time and go at once to St. John Lateran,
in church fully as old, though not quite
so magnificent as St. Peters. The Palace
adjourning it was for several centuries
the residence of the Pope, and belongs
still, like the Vatican, to the small temporal
domain now under his exclusive rule. We
went there first to Vespers for we had
heard the music was as good as could
be found in Rome. The service had begun
when we reached the church. The singing
was indeed superb. We thought we were
enjoying it to the full until we saw the
expression on the faces of a group of
Italians near by. They listened with their
very souls. As the glorious rhythm
rose and fell on the throbbing air they manifested such emotion as

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By Mary B. Welch n.d.
Since we visited St. Peter's and
the Pope before we will pass them by this
time and go at once to St. John Lateran,
in church fully as old, though not quite
so magnificent as St. Peters. The Palace
adjourning it was for several centuries
the residence of the Pope, and belongs
still, like the Vatican, to the small temporal
domain now under his exclusive rule. We
went there first to Vespers for we had
heard the music was as good as could
be found in Rome. The service had begun
when we reached the church. The singing
was indeed superb. We thought we were
enjoying it to the full until we saw the
expression on the faces of a group of
Italians near by. They listened with their
very souls. As the glorious rhythm
rose and fell on the throbbing air they manifested such emotion as